BertvB posted a photo:
A beautifully sharp close-up of a female Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) perched alertly on the edge of a textured structure.
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FRANKFURT (ANP) - Michael van Gerwen en Gian van Veen hebben op de World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt de kwartfinales bereikt. Het Nederlandse duo won bij de laatste zestien met 8-6 van Zweden. Duitsland is zondag de volgende tegenstander.
De World Cup of Darts is een landentoernooi. Het Nederlandse koppel is als tweede geplaatst. De Nederlandse darters wisten het toernooi vier keer te winnen, alle keren met drievoudig wereldkampioen Van Gerwen erbij.
Bij Zweden speelde Jeffrey de Graaf samen met Oskar Lukasiak. De Graaf is een Nederlander die onder de Zweedse vlag uitkomt.
BOEDAPEST (ANP/DPA/RTR) - Ondanks de verkiezingsnederlaag bij de parlementsverkiezingen in april blijft de voormalige Hongaarse premier Viktor Orbán partijleider van het rechts-nationalistische Fidesz. Op een partijcongres stemden vrijwel alle afgevaardigden voor zijn herbenoeming. Er waren geen tegenkandidaten.
Orbáns nieuwe mandaat is beperkt tot één jaar. De 63-jarige oud-premier zei in een toespraak dat het tijd wordt dat een jongere generatie het roer overneemt. Ook nam hij de schuld van de verkiezingsnederlaag op zich en zei hij dat hij zijn partij wil klaarstomen voor de oppositie.
In april won Péter Magyar met zijn partij Tisza de verkiezingen in Hongarije, waarmee na zestien jaar een einde kwam aan Orbáns premierschap.
Tegenstanders verweten Orbán de rechtsstaat en de democratie te hebben uitgehold. De EU bevroor daarom vele miljarden euro's aan subsidies voor Hongarije. Orbáns pro-Russische houding in de oorlog in Oekraïne maakte het land tot een buitenbeentje in de EU.
Documents obtained by The Prospect detail an elites-centric operation to push Abundance politics within the Democratic party with the power of a $260,000,000 annual budget. Also through the power of friendship, given the networks between lobbyists, consultants, and campaigns detailed in the link above and later.
Despite aligning with the blue team, one of the key players in this venture is not feeling particularly small-d democratic, opining to would-be donors on how "the old gatekeepers were political professionals who could count cards; small dollar donors today are amateurs yanking the handles of ActBlue slot machines." Further down it is shown that, similar to previous forays by the Abundance front in Ezra Klein, this operation has some factual challenges. An example, from the article: Rosen also claims that Mississippi "went from worst-in the nation education performance to best-in the nation," which is not remotely true. In other reporting, a network of organizations that advocate for Abundance politics has been hard at work in the primary season of 2026. Reporting from Revolving Door connects the various players in this space with some old boogey men (Thiel as one example) appearing in the money flow in addition to other, less well known barons of industry. The Lever (soft paywall, just asks for an email address for a link that takes you back in) reports on an individual who is wearing a few too many hats given the rules of campaign finance as well as categorizing some of the flow of money from the abundantly wealthy through these groups to preferred, or receptive, candidates. It would seem that folks who wish to avoid seeing (or perpetually hearing) data centers in their neck of the woods may need to pass the plate around their community a few more times to compete with the abounding wealth arrayed against them. To say nothing of efforts to confront abundant hazards from other industries providing for an abundance of shareholder value, though I suppose in this way US politics is the same as it ever was.
Despite aligning with the blue team, one of the key players in this venture is not feeling particularly small-d democratic, opining to would-be donors on how "the old gatekeepers were political professionals who could count cards; small dollar donors today are amateurs yanking the handles of ActBlue slot machines." Further down it is shown that, similar to previous forays by the Abundance front in Ezra Klein, this operation has some factual challenges. An example, from the article: Rosen also claims that Mississippi "went from worst-in the nation education performance to best-in the nation," which is not remotely true. In other reporting, a network of organizations that advocate for Abundance politics has been hard at work in the primary season of 2026. Reporting from Revolving Door connects the various players in this space with some old boogey men (Thiel as one example) appearing in the money flow in addition to other, less well known barons of industry. The Lever (soft paywall, just asks for an email address for a link that takes you back in) reports on an individual who is wearing a few too many hats given the rules of campaign finance as well as categorizing some of the flow of money from the abundantly wealthy through these groups to preferred, or receptive, candidates. It would seem that folks who wish to avoid seeing (or perpetually hearing) data centers in their neck of the woods may need to pass the plate around their community a few more times to compete with the abounding wealth arrayed against them. To say nothing of efforts to confront abundant hazards from other industries providing for an abundance of shareholder value, though I suppose in this way US politics is the same as it ever was.
Convenience store employee Eileen Fox, 56, said suspect ‘banged into metal stand’ but no one was injured in incident
• Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs
A convenience store worker was sacked after trying to tackle a woman who she suspected was shoplifting bacon.
Eileen Fox said the suspected thief was “well known” in Bootle, Merseyside, and claimed she had been stealing from the shop for years.
Continue reading...Police stop comes after far-right activist rose to further prominence on social media amid racial tensions in Britain
Tommy Robinson was detained by police on Saturday at Heathrow airport under counter-terrorism laws, after a week in which he rose to further prominence on social media.
It was understood the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was stopped and had his phones seized under section 3 of the Counter-Terrorism Border Security Act 2019.
Continue reading...Last-minute offer to be put to members is understood to include an average 6.6% pay uplift
Resident doctors in England have called off strike action after the government made a new offer which will be put to members.
They were set to stage a four-day walkout from 7am on Monday – the 16th round of strike action since 2023.
Continue reading...Qatar’s Boualem Khoukhi stunned Switzerland with a late equaliser as the sides played out a 1-1 draw in their opening match at the World Cup on Saturday.
A Breel Embolo penalty had broken the deadlock for Switzerland early in the first half in the San Francisco Bay Area, before the wasteful favourites were made to pay as Qatar earned their first ever point at a World Cup.
Continue reading...
Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams on race day in Spain.
Michael Lamonato picks out five key things to keep an eye on when the lights go out on race day in Spain.
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:
The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut's CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he objected to LLM-assisted development in Vim and Neovim. In his announcement, DeVault said he no longer wanted to use software developed with LLM assistance and introduced Vim Classic as a fork for users who want to continue using Vim without that involvement... Vim Classic follows Vim's charityware model and continues to direct users toward Bram Moolenaar's long-running support for children in Uganda. The release is distributed as a signed source tarball from SourceHut, while future important announcements are expected through the project's mailing list.
"Vim is important to me..." DeVault wrote in March. (DeVault even tattooed "hjkl" on his right arm.) "[A]lmost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I've written, emails I've sent, and more, almost all of it has passed through Vim."
But DeVault wrote that he also cares about AI's impact on air pollution, fresh water supplies, global supply chains, and the working conditions of miners in African companies:
And at a moment when the climate demands immediate action to reduce our footprint on this planet, the AI boom is driving data centers to consume a full 1.5% of the world's total energy production in order to eliminate jobs and replace them with a robot that lies... All this to enrich the few, centralize power, reduce competition, and underwrite an enormous bubble that, once it bursts, will ruin the lives of millions of the world's poor and marginalized classes.
I don't think it's cute that someone vibe coded "battleship" in VimScript. I think it's more important that we stop collectively pretending that we don't understand how awful all of this is. I don't want to use software which has slop in it. I do what I can to avoid it, and sadly even Vim now comes under scrutiny in that effort as both Vim and NeoVim are relying on LLMs to develop the software... To keep my conscience clear, and continue to enjoy the relationship I have with this amazing piece of software, I have forked Vim...
Since forking from this base, I have backported a handful of patches, most of which address CVEs discovered after this release, but others which address minor bug fixes. I also penned a handful of original patches which bring the codebase from this time up to snuff for building it on newer toolchains...
I invite you to use Vim Classic, if you feel the same way as me, and to maintain it with me, contributing the patches you need to support your own use cases.
The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut's CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he objected to LLM-assisted development in Vim and Neovim. In his announcement, DeVault said he no longer wanted to use software developed with LLM assistance and introduced Vim Classic as a fork for users who want to continue using Vim without that involvement... Vim Classic follows Vim's charityware model and continues to direct users toward Bram Moolenaar's long-running support for children in Uganda. The release is distributed as a signed source tarball from SourceHut, while future important announcements are expected through the project's mailing list.
"Vim is important to me..." DeVault wrote in March. (DeVault even tattooed "hjkl" on his right arm.) "[A]lmost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I've written, emails I've sent, and more, almost all of it has passed through Vim."
But DeVault wrote that he also cares about AI's impact on air pollution, fresh water supplies, global supply chains, and the working conditions of miners in African companies:
And at a moment when the climate demands immediate action to reduce our footprint on this planet, the AI boom is driving data centers to consume a full 1.5% of the world's total energy production in order to eliminate jobs and replace them with a robot that lies... All this to enrich the few, centralize power, reduce competition, and underwrite an enormous bubble that, once it bursts, will ruin the lives of millions of the world's poor and marginalized classes.
I don't think it's cute that someone vibe coded "battleship" in VimScript. I think it's more important that we stop collectively pretending that we don't understand how awful all of this is. I don't want to use software which has slop in it. I do what I can to avoid it, and sadly even Vim now comes under scrutiny in that effort as both Vim and NeoVim are relying on LLMs to develop the software... To keep my conscience clear, and continue to enjoy the relationship I have with this amazing piece of software, I have forked Vim...
Since forking from this base, I have backported a handful of patches, most of which address CVEs discovered after this release, but others which address minor bug fixes. I also penned a handful of original patches which bring the codebase from this time up to snuff for building it on newer toolchains...
I invite you to use Vim Classic, if you feel the same way as me, and to maintain it with me, contributing the patches you need to support your own use cases.
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